I started integrating http://ohmjs.org with http://strudel.cc so you can live code your live coding language
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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#82AI Sprite Animator: https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#83I'm working on a little website to summarize discussion trends across the podcast ecosystem. I wrote about an early prototype here[1] and also gave a presentation about it a few months ago[2] and now I'm working on an expanded "daily pulse" view across hundreds of episodes of top news podcasts from the last few days.
My secret agenda is to explore how the "information supply chain" can be tracked across the data-processing stack all the way from the original audio through transcription, the processing pipeline, and UI. I'm using language models for multi-stage summarization and want to be able to follow the provenance of summaries all the way back to the transcripts and original audio.
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#84Ephemeral, client-side encrypted sharing of files, text, html, and forms.
Just prototyping at the moment, but the goal is to allow users to not only share files (even big ones) but also forms, like Google forms, but encrypted and one time only (read once).
The use case I have in mind is allowing businesses to create GDPR forms (with private info, consent, etc), share unique urls with specific customers, and once the data is received by the business delete it from the server.
This could be useful to businesses that don't have a customer-facing portal, but have to deal with PII and the customer needs to consent and verify the data and what it's used for.
The data is encrypted client side (web crypto) and the password either shared in the url (in the hash fragment, also encrypted by a key stored on the server) or by other means (eg. could be the recipient's dob or id number or some other previously shared or known value).
Still trying to figure out the details, use cases, business value but the core backend is done so is the client-side crypto stuff. I managed to get chunked AES-GCM working so that it doesn't load the whole file in memory in order to encrypt it, it does that in chunks of let's say 2MB. Chrome also has chunked requests (in addition to responses) for sending the file to the server, but would probably need to come up with some other mechanism to get that working on other browsers (like send the chunks in multiple requests and append to a single file on the server, but that adds more complexity so I'm still working it out).
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#85I wrote a simple app last year that put all my Apple Watch workout routes on a simple map, so I can see how much of the city I’ve covered (all existing options were paid, and I was too cheap for it). Now I have some time, so rewriting it properly that’s based on neighbourhood, completion %s, achievements and etc. It’s weirdly fun, because I’m not a mobile engineer, but satisfying to see hundreds of users per month us…
Did you look at the squadrats app? It’s compatible with strava also. It sounds quite similar to what you describe.
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#86Got Phonex.new to finally build a working prototype of my open source MTG style card game.
Gonna wait until the LLM credits refresh next month to continue, but I'm very happy so far.
Elixir has been cool.
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#87https://Podskim.com is a way to skim through podcasts like a TikTok sans the brain rot.
It also has some fact checking and topic monitoring behind the scenes.
Haven't figured out a business model for it yet but has been fun to keep poking it
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#88Finally learning TLA+ by plugging a very simplified multithreaded Java simulation of an old project's distributed, (hopefully) eventually-consistent algorithm into LLMs and asking for translations.
I'd previously tried to learn TLA+ a few times but always eventually lost interest and gave up. This approach was quick and easy. Disappointed that TLC can't really exhaustively check more than 8 steps; being O(n!), 9 steps would take months, even after all the symmetry optimizations. Maybe will look at TLAPS next.
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#89I'm working on inq - a real ink pen that writes on real paper while simultaneously digitizing everything you write. Specifically working on the software for our mobile and web apps.
Among other things, my team has implemented access-based sharing using web links, like Google Docs for real paper handwriting. And we've just launched Quin, our AI assistant for real paper handwriting. Super useful for getting help with math, language learning, looking up relevant facts, generating ideas, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#90Adding descriptions my library of images on my NAS so it can be searchable like google photos and iCloud.
Had fun with go and the code is as short as it gets.